Karl Barth’s letter in response to Cornelius Van Til’s questions (April 29, 2014)

~ Updated and Revised: February 21st, 2019 ~ In the following letter in the book Karl Barth: Letters 1961-1968, Karl Barth says that Cornelius Van Til considered him to be "possibly the worst heretic of all time". It is well known that that Van Til despised Barth and wrote two books against his theologian, […]

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Rudolf Bultmann: de-mythologizing, Gnosticism and his works (March 8, 2012)

Rudolf Bultmann  (1884-1976) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at the University of Marburg. Bultmann is well know for his de-mythologizing method that he attempted to purge the New Testament of what he perceived to be legendary accretions to the Christian Tradition. The method is historically reminiscent of the penknife redaction of Marcion […]

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